English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 20

The poor little boy said: “It is the time that my mother, the hen-wife, takes up the eggs for the queen's breakfast.”

Who acts: poor little boy, back, mother · What happens: say, be, take up · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little boy, back, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 time	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 time	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 takes	obj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 takes	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wife	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wife	det
17	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wife	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hen	punct
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wife	punct
21	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 time	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 takes	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eggs	det
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 takes	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 breakfast	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 queen	det
27	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 breakfast	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 queen	case
29	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 takes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the poor little boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	back	the time		tree rules
3	take up in a quote	present	my mother	the time	for the queen's breakfast	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme egg=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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